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title: The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure. Who acts: Wolves, sheep. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 102

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The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.

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**Who acts:** Wolves, sheep · **What happens:** beguile, dismiss, destroy, please · **To what, where:** Sheep, Dogs, unguarded flock, own pleasure

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolves, sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:5:102
# text = The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	beguiled	beguile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	unguarded	unguarded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beguile** | past · passive |  | the Sheep and poor silly creatures |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dismiss** | past |  | the Dogs |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 3 | **destroy** | past | the Wolves | the unguarded flock |  | sheep's own pleasure |  | whereupon *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient |
| 4 | **please** |  | sheep |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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